7. How did you do that?

Finn's standpoint

I've faced a lot of odd things, many I didn't care to know the source, just destroyed, but meeting her was the one thing I couldn't comprehend. The wind around us, the spark, I couldn't understand. I had felt it once, but it wasn't possible to feel it again. It was not in anyway possible in this life… Or could it… No, it wasn't possible.

"So, laddie…" I shot the pirate captain a glare, he kept calling me a child. I hired a sea captain for the mission, at least until Axel arrives with my ship. "Sorry, lad, but this old man is used to that name. Now when is those lassies coming on board?"

"They would come at their own time,"

"Ahoy there, matey!" A feminine voice shrieked shrilly. I cringed from the shrill voice, definitely that small one. "Heh, heh, I've always wanted to say that." She giggled.

"You mean shout that," the man voice snorted out.

"They are here," I turned my head over to her, she can jump.

"Sorry we are late," the one with the masculine voice apologised, climbing onto the ship. There she was, the girl I spent all night thinking about. What was the mystery behind her? She stood there staring at the ship, as if an invisible barrier was stopping her from boarding it.

"Ah! The Wind as they call them," the captain said too loudly. I really wished Axel would magically appear. If only he wasn't so late.

"Suz?" The loud one called with concern. Suz as she is called, raised her head to look at me. She didn't wear her full facemask so I could see her rosy cheeks. Her beautiful ocean blue, almond shaped eyes pleaded for me to come help her cross, like she was afraid of the ship, of the sea.

My legs moved to the request in her eyes, I walked towards her, passing her sisters. "Are you afraid of the water?"

"No, I just need you to give me a hand and pull me in,"

"Hmm, why?" I asked suspiciously.

"I cannot come over until I'm invited, I'm a weirdo that way." I studied her eyes which had gone void of emotions. She was hard to read, just like her. I tried to read her mind, all I got was nothing, I couldn't read her thoughts. I turned it to her sisters, the loud one was thinking about food, like literally reciting a food poem in her head. While the other one was admiring the ship. I wasn't getting anything out of them.

"Alright," I stretched my hand out, she stretched hers out and daintily placed it on mine. A surge of electricity bolted through my hand from her touch, charged down to my heart. I pulled her in before letting go. My heart began thumping at an unusual pace, my hand beginning to tremble.

What the hell is this all about!

"Thank you," she said softly, glanced at my shaking hand and then hers. I wasn't the only one going through it. "Odd." She walked ahead, waving her hand as if trying to get dirt off. Something is definitely wrong with that girl, could she be practicing dark magic?

"Now that is settled, weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!" The captain shouted. I shoved my trembling hand into my coat and walked over to them.

"If we are going to work together, I should at least get your names or something to identify you with,"

"I'm Sugarplum," loud one giggled, "she's boyman and that's weirdo." The remaining two smacked her on the head.

"Er, ow!"

"Ocean, my name is Ocean." Weird girl said out indifferently. I knew that was a lie. Her sisters had been calling her Suz. It didn't matter, they would be dead after they complete their mission.

"Call me anything you like," the masculine voice said with a indifferent wave of her hand. I decided there to call her Claudia, from the memory of the human, she suited the image.

"Now, lassies, where do we set course to?"

"Hold on," Ocean removed her hand from her pocket, bringing the map along with it. She walked over to the forecastle deck mast, spreading the golden cloth out. She held it upward to the sun, allowing the ray of the sunlight to hit it. "What is gold can never be old, what's in mind, can never be told. Gold and sunlight are alike, men seek both to survive. Match the ray and what I hold today, and bring out the map hidden away."

Immediately the last word left her lips, the cloth began to burn up, smoke rising out of each burn. ash fell down from the cloth, the golden part was burning out. By the time the last speck of ash fell, the golden cloth had turn to a pale yellow paper map. I definitely wouldn't have been able to figure that out. "Well blow me away, the lass knows her stuff." Captain Something Beard said in awe.

"How did you do that?" I questioned.

"Like I said the other day, you have the cloth, but not the map. The real map was hidden with magic only those words could reveal. If you had gone on with the other map, you would find yourself wandering the ocean endlessly or die before you can say Jack."

"That didn't answer my question," I folded my arms unsatisfactorily. She sighed heavily.

"My mother was a temple maiden, I learnt a lot from her before she died. Happy?" She headed back to the deck to join her sisters. "set course to the Sea of Fallen Kings,"

"What! That place is where kings die on ships, even great pirates!" The first mate shouted incredulously.

"That is only the beginning, do we get somewhere to rest? I need to rest."

"Well, we aren't being paid for nothing, man the sails ye booty lovers, we have a sea to explore!"

"Aye, aye, captain."